COWAP Revisiting the Maternal: Parenting a Child with a Facial Difference
COWAP Revisiting the Maternal: Parenting a Child with a Facial Difference
with Sandy Hershberg Mothering her child with Moebius Syndrome, congenital facial paralysis, in which the face appears visibly different from birth, sets the stage for Sandy Hershberg’s experience of mothering in which her sense of herself and sense of unfamiliarity within herself is intensified by the “the uncanny gaze” of others on her child, thus heightening […]